The View from Squirrel Ridge

We met Allison in Front Royal on Saturday to give her a TV set (recently replaced by a new one) and share a meal at Cracker Barrel. The TV w...

From Christmas through yesterday, the resort was full of people skiing, snowboarding, tubing, and even playing golf. Here's how it looke...

A site called Critics Rant offers a little gizmo that rates the reading level of your blog. This blog didn't rate the Genius award, but...

These portraits of my daughters are from 1966. Lynn (above) was 18 months old. Her little sister Marie was only a month old and had no idea ...

Peggy, Carol, Linda at the Dining Room Table

Ricky, Linda, Peggy, Carol At Home in Fairfax County, VA

This is a photograph from a box of family history and genealogy that my Aunt Clarice sent me in the 90's when she was preparing to move ...

A distant cousin in San Francisco (fourth cousin, not to be confused with my first cousin in that city) writes that the father of my gggg-gr...

I got an email from a distant cousin who found mention of Jacob Suiter on this blog and had some questions about the house he built in Chesa...

We took down our Christmas tree on New Year's Day. Here's a picture so you can see what it looked like this year. It was a small tr...

If you ever wind up in an emergency room, you'll want to have your basic medical information with you. Those of us with allergies to med...

I visited the HistoryAnimated site and clicked through the animated maps of Jackson's Valley Campaign . They're pretty neat. You ha...

First post of 2009: I only made a few resolutions for the new year: I will join Facebook . After all, both my daughters are on it. (And so I...

We send cards with the word Peace across them, but peace on earth feels like a hopeless dream. Sometimes I hum the old song, "Last Nig...

Charlie is hanging on the feeder, swinging it around so that birdseed falls to the ground. His siblings are crawling around below, eating th...

It's a different world down at the ski slopes. Hundreds of people are skiing and having fun. The resort core is like a busy town this we...

I was in Walmart last week and decided to have my picture taken in their studio. It was a weekday and nobody was waiting, and their package ...

When we went to my sister's house on Friday, I wore a new pair of red pants because I thought they looked Christmassy. That is, they loo...

Yesterday we drove to my sister's house and had lunch with her, her son and his wife. It's always fun to spend time with them. Right...